Israel Facing Major West Bank Uprising Over Palestinian Hunger Strike -- The Telegraph
Israel has been warned that it faces a major uprising in the West Bank after six Palestinian prisoners taking part in one of the largest and most protracted hunger strikes ever staged in its jails were said to be close to death.
Palestinian militant groups and moderate politicians alike have predicted that years of relative tranquility could be brought to an abrupt and violent end if any of the 1,600 inmates now refusing food were to starve to death.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said this week that the six inmates who have declined sustenance the longest are "at imminent risk of dying".
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My Comment: The world's focus has shifted away from the Palestinian cause when the Arab Spring started last year. A hunger strike is one way to galvanize opinion, but it will still be hard for the Palestinians to garner the world attention that they feel that they deserve when scores of civilians are being massacred on a daily basis only a hundred kilometers away in Syria.
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